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A multimedia experiment, we are live blogging tonight about Lost.

10:01 - man, Locke had one messed-up childhood.
10:03 - the freighter's doctor is still alive. The same doctor we saw wash up on the shore before with his throat cut. Eeenteresting.
10:11 - the Horace dream sequence was some spooky stuff, Horace being the guy who welcomed people off the boat when they arrived for the Dharma Initiative. Then Ben had an interesting comment, "I used to have dreams." Dreams like Locke's? Seemingly communicative with something supernatural dreams?
10:20 - 'whoa' moment, Richard there at the Locke's maternity ward. A close second, Hurley's supposition as to why only he and Locke can see the cabin: "because we're the craziest."
10:26 - More Richard. I think we're starting to see indications the Losties were set there bh circumstances long ago. Young John Locke then failed some inscrutable test by choosing the knife. Interesting. Am betting the jar of dirt was island dirt.
10:36 - Dick Ide Honda just did a Lost-like commercial? Am I impressed? Am I disgusted? Am I hungry? Where are the carrot sticks? More than halfway through and not much has happened and yet a lot has happened.
10:44 - Ian raises a good question - in regards to Red Lobster, what is 'crunch fried'?
10:51 - Abaddon and Locke! I'm curious if we're going to see evidence of other characters manipulated to be on the Oceanic flight. For example, what brought Christian Shepard to Australia, I wonder.
10:58 - best line "Yeah, I'm cool with you going in alone, too." Hurley with the win.
So I was betting it was Abaddon in the cabin, but Christian Shepard also makes sense. As much as anything in this show makes sense. So what do we know now? Locke was chosen/manipulated to come to the island. Why him? Maybe the time-bending properties of the island meant it knew he'd be there one day, playing the role he is playing, so the island then had to ensure he did in fact go there to play that role (dude, my head hurts). We know Martin and the mercenaries are heading to wipe out everyone and Frank the chopper pilot seems to have some plan. That Ben's role as chosen by the island is apparently over - he fulfilled whatever task and now he's tossed aside. That Claire is a willing part of whatever the island is doing - the Claire sitting there in the cabin with dead ghost dad after having left her baby in the jungle was seemingly cool with everything.
Next week it looks as if we get some Oceanic Six flashforward.